Deep Growth

Originally created for The Animals in Us exhibition at Joshua Liner Gallery (2016), this painting merges anatomical imagery with deep-sea biodiversity to explore the porous boundary between body and environment. At its center, a pair of lungs ruptures into a surreal bouquet of bioluminescent marine life—organisms inspired by dives in Papua New Guinea and the Galápagos Islands. A venomous box jellyfish coils protectively around the lungs, its delicate tentacles both beautiful and lethal.

The work suggests a complex, internalized ecology—where breath becomes ocean, and life forms from the deep are tethered to our own fragile systems. Suspended in blackness, the composition evokes the profound mystery of the abyss, where transformation, danger, and resilience coexist just beyond the visible.

A portion of proceeds supports large-scale land conservation through Art to Acres.